A post was written and sent over discord recently proposing the idea of altering all stories to allow a mix of difficulties, creating a sort of "true all stories" category. This way, for instance, if someone wanted to run all stories, but didn't like Terra crit or Aqua beginner, they could do Terra beginner and Aqua crit in the same run. The mods have talked it over a bit, and here's what we've been discussing:

• Having three versions of the all stories category: All stories any%, all stories (beginner) and all stories (critical). Critical would still require completion of the final and secret episodes, while the other two would only require final.

In addition to this, we've also opened discussion about whether we should allow the use of external save files in order to cut unlock requirements from the run. Our proposal is this:

• In order to make things more consistent with other games, as well as make all stories any% a true any% category that requires no prior completion of the game to run, we're proposing requiring the tutorial(though this can be debated, as it is something skippable before the run even starts) and all unlock conditions for the final episode to be required within all stories runs.

We would like input on these topics from the members of the community. What are people's feelings on these changes? And if we were to implement the requirement changes and not allow "NG+ content", what would we do with current runs?

All broken vod links for this game have been fixed. If anyone notices any issues with the existing runs, please let a mod know.

All broken vod links for this game have been fixed. If anyone notices any issues with the existing runs, please let a mod know.

All broken vod links for this game have been fixed. If anyone notices any issues with the existing runs, please let a mod know.

So I don't know where this "need" or mentality came into play for Hobz to be a "dictator" for the community that everything gets funneled into. I know Hobz isn't at fault, I'm not necessarily blaming anyone, I think it just happened more naturally based on various other factors, such as Hobz redoing the lbs, discord, etc, but regardless, the mentality exists and I, as a leaderboard mod, am to an extent questioning what I even do anymore.

To add a bit of context, one of the big issues that sparked a lot of this is the khspeedruns twitch page. This was created by Hobz in order to host community events, spotlights, etc and more recently, the KH relay. For one, very few even knew Hobz even made the page. I myself was under the impression White and Saiyanz did and as I was being proactive in adding in my input to them about the relay, I wrongfully haggled saiyanz for not updating the page at all with no knowledge whatsoever that he couldn't. Furthermore, after further looking into this, it was found that only Hobz had the info for it, would not hand it out and even used a real personal password for it. As a leaderboard mod, I can't help but feel I should at least have SOME power over it, be it the info or at least editor. What if Hobz isn't around? What then? Why can't we go to someone else like Biz or Sonic? What do mods even do anymore other than mash out the occasional verify button, or often in my case, not even do that because they're concerned someone else would have rejected.

Another thing is back in the day, we had a leaderboard mod skype group. With the advent of the forums and discord, it died off, but now as a result, all we have is here. This is fine and all, but here's the thing: I don't always need to type up some elaborate forum post for every question I might want to be directed to other mods. And more importantly, I work a lot. I'm not home a lot, I'm on my phone and my phone has data charges. I can't always just load srcom and lurk the forums. Now, the thing I prefer about discord AS A PROGRAM over others is the ability to see any chat you missed without needing to be in the server, like you would in teamspeak or something. It might not be the MOST necessary thing, but right now, it just feels rather difficult to talk amongst mods. Arranging people to all be together for "meetings" is a bitch and we don't always have the luxury of being able to watch everything and a centralized place we all have easy access to would make communication way easier.

Basically to sum it up, basically everything feels like it's getting funneled to Hobz and all mods need to be able to handle things on their own too.